12 Awesome Marvel Facts We Learned From The Captain America: Civil War Commentary

The vast majority of movie-lovers will never be able to sit on a couch with their favorite filmmaker and have them intimately discuss their work scene-by-scene, but that's exactly why commentary tracks are so great. More often than not, they prove to be wonderful treasure troves of trivia and anecdotes, and there are few better ways to learn about the details of a movie. Because of this, we were tremendously excited to learn there would be a commentary attached to the digital release of Captain America: Civil War, and we learned a ton of great stuff listening to it this past weekend.

Altogether, the commentary track for Captain America: Civil War is two-and-a-half hours of directors Joe and Anthony Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely talking about their experience building the blockbuster, and it's fantastic. We learned a ton of great stuff, and we've put together all of the highlights in the list you'll find below. Read on, and enjoy!

Helmut Zemo was originally chasing a completely different MacGuffin

When we first meet Daniel Bruhl's Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War, he is on the hunt for a little red book with a black star -- which notably contains the phrases necessary to transform Bucky Barnes into The Winter Soldier. It's a rather simple MacGuffin, but early drafts included a much more complicated one. As Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely reveal on the commentary, the original idea was to have Zemo looking for "The Mind Crown" -- which is the device we see put on Bucky's head in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the opening of Civil War. It was replaced in aid of making things simpler.